EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
MoMA Staff
Director
John Szarkowski
American, 1925–2007
Director
Artists
New York Times Review of the exhibition
PUBLISHED
9 April 1974
Blinded in Beating, Photographer Still Presses a Crusade
It is 40 years now since W. Eugene Smith used to dash out of the classroom, clutching is camera, when the great brownish pallor that presages a dust storm would start its sweep across the Kansas sky. This picture by W. Eugene Smith, of a mother with her girl, 16, born retarded, paralyzed, blind and deaf, is considered by its maker, top, to be one of his strongest.
New York Times • page 87 • 1,409 words